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2025 Toyota GR Corolla Automatic - Bottom Line Review

LET'S GO ROAD RALLYING: Point to point, against the clock competition on public roads has enabled smaller volume automakers, lacking circuit racing pedigree and finances, to enter the realm of motorsport. All a manufacturer had to supply was a road car, ruggedized and capable of illuminating dark and

2025 Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid AWD - Re- Driven Review

NO. 1 NAME LEVERAGED FOR GREEN URBAN UTILITY MACHINE : Expanding the globe's most popular model moniker in 2023, by appending "Cross" to a hybrid powered city crossover utility vehicle, was a clever coup by world's largest automaker. As a reminder of that segment innovation,

2025 Ford Explorer Platinum - Bottom Line Review

EXPLORERS SEEK UNCHARTED DESTINATIONS: In March of 1513, the Conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon set sail from the isle of Puerto Rico to locate the islands of Beniny, reportedly to the northwest. Instead, Ponce de Leon, made landfall at somewhere between modern day St. Augustine and Melbourne Beach, Florida, more

2024 Land Rover Defender 110 X-Dynamic SE - Bottom Line Review

ROYAL ARMS FOR OVERLANDING: The British are big on certain traditions which celebrate the Commonwealth. The Land Rover automotive brand merges the legacy of colonialism into remote regions of the globe with the Royal Warrant, decreeing trades or industries which set an example of British-ness. By Appointment to HM The

2024 Toyota Tacoma Trailhunter - Counter Point Review

In the world of overland vehicle upfitting, only the trail width, tree crown height, and wallet thickness are the limit on what can be installed. And, to a large degree, vehicle manufacturers have ceded most of the upfitting market to the after-market. Despite their comprehensive TRD line of trims, components

2024 Lexus RX 450h + AWD PHEV - Bottom Line Review

CORD -ABLE NUMBER ONE LUXE MOVER: Fully revised and less amorphous ovoid, a fifth generation "Radiance X [Cross]over," from Japanese luxury automaker Lexus, dawned in 2023 to carry on the most popular luxury car in America mantle. Amenities have been enhanced and user interfacing entered a remote

2025 Subaru Outback Touring XT AWD - What's New Review

2025 Subaru Outback Touring XT AWD model year update: HASN'T MESSED WITH SUCCESS - SO FAR: Launched in 1995, originally a quirky Legacy sedan off-shoot, over three million of the quintessential ruggedized active lifestyle sport wagon have found homes in America. Named after the vast Australian wilderness, the

2025 Mazda CX-70 Turbo S - Counter-Point Review

"Side Kicks," as the proteges of heros, are often depicted as the less serious complement to their mentors. Holmes had his Watson just as Cassidy had his Sundance Kid. Ambitious automakers, similarly have positioned more casual, Sport Activity Vehicles as complements to their heroic SUVs, typically sacrificing practicality

2025 Toyota Crown Hybrid - Re- Driven, Re - Configured Review

New trends can either be exhilarating or head scratching. Sometimes they can be both, as with the new automotive niche of hybrid electric active lifestyle executive sedans. In 2023, Toyota introduced the Crown four-door as a youthful targeting stand-in for the void of the Avalon saloon in their American portfolio.

2025 Lexus NX 450h+ AWD PHEV - What's New Review

2025 Lexus NX 450h+ AWD PHEV model year update : The second generation of Lexus' entry family worthy sport utility vehicle has come into its own. The Nimble X [for crossover] is the Japanese luxury brand's number two best seller. Sharing a TNGA-K platform with its Toyota RAV4

2025 Volkswagen Jetta SEL - Quick Drive Review

GETTA JETTA: Once a regal German made sport compact family sedan, (model named "King" in China), which was just snazzier upholstery away from an Audi and a liftgate away from a Golf, the Volkswagen Jetta fell on hard times in its homeland. By the late 2000's,

2025 Volkswagen Taos - What's New Review

Out of the legacy of New Mexico hippies and John Muir, the man who repaired their air cooled Type 2's and Beetles, in 2022 German automaker Volkswagen introduced its smallest crossover utility vehicle for the Americans. Replacing the once world best selling Golf in the line-up, the VW

2025 Mazda 3 Turbo Hatchback AWD - What's New Review

2025 Mazda 3 2.5 Turbo Hatchback AWD model year update: Seven years into the design of its entry model, Japanese automaker Mazda is not about to mess with success. The Mazda 3 is the gold standard for the premium sport compact segment, while encroaching on prestige monikers. The 2021

2024 Toyota Tundra Platinum CrewMax 4x4 - What's New Review

RUGGED -IZED PRECIOUS METAL SETTING : Domesticated half-ton trucks don't come much larger than a CrewMax cab and six and a half foot bed. Toyota has been offering their large as the barren Arctic plain version of the Tundra in an ingot like Platinum trim. For those who prefer